Flower of All Eternity There is no rapture earth can give Surpassing memory of Thee, To kneel before Thee one could live In oceans of infinity. There is no light that does not pale Before Thy timeless golden form No sea on which we could not sail Secure in tidal wave or storm. The helmsman He who steers our course The star who ever guides us, Thee, The rain of Grace that on us pours Thy splendour and Thy majesty. The beacon of our godward climb The answer to our soul's desire O MotherForce beyond all time Lift us higher, ever higher Until we reach Thy lotus feet And in the roses of Thy hands Invincible a

The Bridge to Things Divine What vision do I have? Only a hope pinned to a perfect face, Eyes that held the anguish of the world Transforming all earth's million cries to bliss. What memory most dear? Only the moment offered at Her feet That blessed ground on which we blindly walk, My forehead pressed in homage kneeling there. What message do I share? That peace on earth begins within each soul, No outward plan, construction of the mind Can solve the riddle of our birth and death. What is my destiny? To find the truth that has its home in me, To know all darkness is a shade of light And truth and love the bridge

Rosemarie The body is gone but her soul lives on and on, All beauty of the earth it shall retain, The devotion and undying love of one Who lived alone for her, and when the pain Of her departure lessens with the years Will remember laughter and the joy they shared, Awakenings to greater truths, the fears They vanquished and the challenges they dared To find that love could deepen and make whole Two separate beings joined soul to soul. Now she has soared beyond our earthbound sight But casts on us her sweetness and her light.

Where the Sacred Bodies Rest I heard the call of vast primordial seas Moving beneath the stellar hand of God, And lands that spoke of aeonic ancestries Where once in other bodies I had trod. Explorer and iconoclast I sought To find familiar scenes loved and known And in the dawning consciousness was brought To the sacred shores I knew to be my own. My burning friend greeted me again In torrid skies where white washed out the blue Beyond the jungle and the endless plain I found the place where higher knowledge grew. In a courtyard decked with flowers where the scent Of frankincense and jasmine filled the air I saw

Reweave from Human Fabric For nothing is attained till all is won, No partial victory we can achieve If the true surrender has not yet begun. A lethal dagger held within a sleeve Desire is that saddles us with stress And lingers to explore exotic taste. We cannot build a state of godliness Until we clean the centuries of waste That fill our temples with unholy things, The storms of hate that boil and rage within And the outward self that

Until the Falsehood Disappears Sleep now my soul and fly the bonds of time, The blessings of the night to comfort you. Soar out from the restricting walls of flesh In the sanctum of the spirit's peace, renew. For love that labours unconvinced of death Shall solace find, complete the work undone, Pain shall fade and grief still unconsoled In the great adventure towards the inner sun. Shall we not dwell one day in Beauty's hour, The code of darkness under which we live Reprogram and the hidden self empower, Know desire as a palliative Refuse the edict that we must grow old And the daunting prospect of the failing yea

Song of Sorrow 2009 I looked upon the vastness of the sea But all the years of wanderlust had fled The breaking waves recalled to memory The day I cast the ashes of my dead. Across the pale blue waters sailed my dreams Of youth, of hope and possibility, The tears no longer rivulets but streams. There were years of an undying unity As two souls journeying through love once found The spirit's contemplative higher ground And felt as one the coming world to be.

Time March 12, 2012 Time will allot us time to seek and grow And given time enough we may exceed Our sorrows and our longing for the past. And though old memories still dwell in us Like phantom presences that dog our steps Impeding the future that we walk towards, Like a karmic knot, frayed but still unshorn Binding us to deeds we would forget, Still are we the children of the Light, From Light we came, towards greater Light we grow.

Eternity of You Have we not walked upon this earth before Did we not share the silence of the sky, Walked undaunted through the open door Of life, its wonder and its mystery? We dove into the stillness of the sea, Above you winged the giant manta ray, You swam alone in your infinity And watched this coloured nether world at play. I remember how I looked into your eyes And felt my soul upborne in ecstasy So soon you answered the call of Paradise And I am left as on a barren lea Planting flowers of a brighter hue Alone in my eternity of you.

Love Once Found The great hands have turned another year And I look back, not forward as I must Hold sacred the remembrance of things dear And beauty that once wedded me, now dust. A single path we found as ours to pace And under foreign skies that were our own, For love is an eternity of grace A field of flowers, fragrant, richly sown. I cannot speak for those who walk alone, Not knowing if love's fire burned as mine, But this I'll say, not more, now love is gone, Her coming was a gift the more divine For that we grew as one above all pain, Such love once found shall find itself again.